By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
You know why fascists win? Do you know why Pavle Djurisic will succeed in his rehabilitation? Because it was agreed to “dialogue” with them. Fascism is not a legitimate talking point. Organizing a show in which anti-fascists and fascists will “confront their views” makes as much sense as organizing a show about rape and inviting rapists as the “other side” whose arguments need to be heard.
You know that liberal saying that says the enemy is the one whose side of the story we haven’t heard yet. But I’m not a liberal. If you are a fascist, I will be your enemy as long as I live. If you are a fascist, you have nothing to “discuss” with me about that or anything else. You have all the power. You will rule for a long time. But even if I remain alone, while I breathe, I will destroy you with all the power I have. And you know why? Because God is either with you or with me. And he is with me.
Ten years. That’s how long it’s been since this text was published on zurnal.info. Just so no one can say we didn’t tell you.
Outstretched right hand: Did we really defeat fascism in 1945?
Another victory like ours over fascism for the fourth time, and there is no escape for us.
A friend told me: in the village where his family is from, in the vicinity of Tuzla, during the Second World War, most of the men were in the Handschar division. When, in the first days after the end of the war in Bosnia in the 1990s, they heard that a German medical unit would pass through the village on the way to Tuzla, the villagers concluded that ours were coming. They dug out uniforms from the Second World War from the barn, formed a welcome wall, and as they passed through the village, they greeted the Germans with their right hand raised in the Nazi salute.
The Germans, says a friend, had an expression on their face – you’re shocking me, I swear.
YOU CANNOT BE BOTH A CHRISTIAN AND A FASCIST
The decision of the Serbian state to unconditionally, without the right of appeal, rehabilitate Chetnik commander Draza Mihailovic was hardly shocking.
Because, long before the High Court in Belgrade announced the full legal rehabilitation of the criminal, his symbolic rehabilitation was completed. Mihailovic was rehabilitated in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, among the immortals of national culture; in suburban pubs, among addicts of cheap national mythology and cheap wine, those who turn the ideas of the immortals from the Academy into reality at the cost of their cheap lives; in the media which, in parallel with the rehabilitation of Draza, held Tito’s trial and ruled: guilty on all counts of the indictment; Uncle Draza was rehabilitated in school textbooks, novels, films, TV series… In the end, he was also rehabilitated by the Belgrade court.
In Croatia, the symbolic (and also practical) rehabilitation of the Ustasha ideology was completed with equal success. From Bleiburg, the Ustasha Woodstock, to the swastika on Poljud, there is a straight black line: tourists and goods do not travel on that highway. Many Croatian husbands will call that road the Way of the Cross. T.S. Eliot, however, explained why you can’t be both a Christian and a fascist.
Nazism and fascism are fundamentally anti-Christian, the poet wrote. Precisely for this reason, the real danger to Croatian Catholicism never came from partisans and communists. Ustashas were the biggest danger for Croatian Catholicism. I know, they won’t allow to be lectured by a Byzantine, but, just mentioning…
Montenegro also has its own Bleiburg. These days, the Montenegrin government sent the ambassador to Slovenia, Miomir Mugosa, to lay a wreath at the memorial at Kamniska Bistrica where the partisans liquidated, as they say, “members of the Chetnik movement and civilians without trial” in 1945. As if that was not enough, the President of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, also sent his wreath bearer. It was not announced whether the representatives of the state stood still while the speech was given by Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic, who, as usual, talked shit about the innocent victims of the communists.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced “that in the overall state action (of Montenegro), a strong affirmation of anti-fascism can be recognized”. Additionally: “Mugosa laid a wreath at the memorial at Kamniska Bistrica, which once again showed Montenegro’s civilized relationship and respect for the innocent.”
On the memorial on which Montenegro laid a wreath, it says: “To all the victims of war and revolutionary violence – To the dead as a memorial, to the living as a warning – To the soldiers of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Homeland, the people and the clergy of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, tired without trial and judgment after the end of the war in 1945.”
Montenegro thus set new standards in “affirmation of anti-fascism” (that is, “revolutionary violence”) and “civilized attitude” towards the innocent. It should be expected that, as early as next year, the American president, embarrassed by Montenegrin’s civilizational and anti-fascist breadth, goes to Dresden, kneels down and asks for forgiveness from the innocent victims of the Allied bombing of that city.
IT TAKES SO LITTLE
In Montenegro, by the way, there are still streets and boulevards named after Marshal Tito. Isn’t that a little schizophrenic: giving the streets the name of the man who ordered the execution of – as explained by representatives of the state of Montenegro – “innocent civilians”?
Thus, the Montenegrin government clearly showed how, if it is not able to raise the standard of citizens, curb transitional thievery, arrest tycoons, politicians and the mafia connected to them, it can at least match everyone in moral idiocy.
At the same time, the city of Berane decided to declare Tomislav Nikolic, the president of Serbia and Chetnik duke, an honorary citizen. The Montenegrin opposition, which was in power in that city, voted in favour of that decision, as did Djukanovic’s DPS. Then Srpska Lista (Serbian Ticket) spoke out.
They pointed out the following: when the president of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, “who is from Sumadija could become an honorary citizen in Serbian Berane, so can the greatest Herzegovinian in Serbian history, General Mladic, in Serbian Pljevlja”. The Serbian Ticket is still demanding that Radovan Karadzic become an honorary citizen of Savnik. That’s not all. “The Serbian Ticket believes that Vojislav Seselj, who defeated the Hague Tribunal and was decorated by the Metropolitan of Cetinje, Amfilohije, deserves to be an honorary citizen of Kolasin, bearing in mind that Seselj supporters are originally the Scepanovics from Rovca, who celebrate Saint Luke,” said the patriotic-lunatic political organization.
What does that tell us?
a) that the shit will suffocate us sooner or later, sooner rather than later.
b) how little does it take for Montenegro to become the new Serb Republic.
So that the local government also explains to the citizens that “the thing” in Srebrenica was not genocide, because genocide is when you kill everyone, and they didn’t kill everyone.
So… The next time some frantic German medical company passes through the territory of former Tito’s Yugoslavia, the gathered crowd will greet them from Bleiburg to Belgrade with an outstretched right hand. That’s how complete our victory was over fascism in 1945.
(Columnists’ opinions and views are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
